09 September 2010
ARM core to bring 500% performance boost to smartphones
ARM's latest processor, the Cortex-A15 MPCore, is said to bring a fivefold improvement in performance over the devices currently used in smartphones, while consuming similar amounts of energy.
According to Mike Inglis, pictured, general manager of ARM's processor division, the launch marks the beginning of a new era for the ARM Partnership. "It brings together more than 20 years of ARM expertise in low power design with a host of new and very aggressive high performance technologies," he said. "The Cortex-A15 MPCore processor will become the next major step along the industry's energy efficient computing roadmap and open up a wide range of new application possibilities for our partners."
ARM notes the Cortex-A15 MPCore is the result of work with lead licensee partners Samsung, ST Ericsson and Texas Instruments, who were key drivers of the definition of the core.
The Cortex-A15 – which is application compatible with other Cortex-A processors – adds hardware support for OS virtualisation, soft error recovery, larger memory addressability and system coherency. While remaining true to ARM's power-efficient design heritage, the Cortex-A15 MPCore processor brings a new level of performance scalability as well as a feature set that enables ARM Partners to address a range of innovative and traditional markets with a single processor architecture.
The Cortex-A15 processor is targeted at manufacture in 32nm, 28nm and future geometries.
Author
Graham Pitcher
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